terrain_setpixel / terrain_getpixel
These two new functions can paints a terrain texture pixel at the given world position using a given color or can return the color of a terrain texture at the given world position.
#include <level.c> // make sure to include this file - it contains the two needed functions
ENTITY* terrain1;
function paint_terrain_startup()
{
var i;
wait (-5);
beep(); // let the player know that the terrain painting has started
// paint red dots around the x = 200, y = 300 area on the first skin of this terrain using a red color
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++)
terrain_setpixel(terrain1, 220 - random(40), 330 - random(60), NULL, vector(0, 0, 255));
}
action my_terrain() // we will paint a pixel on this terrain entity;
{
terrain1 = my;
}
ent_createterrain
This new instruction creates a chunked terrain entity without using an external HMP file.
#include <level.c> // make sure to include this file - it contains the needed terrain_set_z function
function create_terrain_startup()
{
var i;
wait (-5); // wait until the level is loaded
// create a terrain at xyz = 0, 0, 0 with 128x128 terrain cells, each one of them having 10 x 10 quants
ENTITY* newterrain = ent_createterrain(bmap_create("terrainskin.pcx"), vector(0, 0, 0), 128, 128, 10);
for (i = 0; i < 16384; i++) // go through all the terrain cells
terrain_set_z(newterrain, i, random(100)); // and give each vertex a random height (0... 100 quants)
}
ent_create improvements
The ent_create instruction can now directly load model files in single-texture obj format.
